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Sadly CARNet would not allow that :(

Maybe if you somehow manage to register a company called "C", but probably the Trade Court would reject the registration :(

If you look back at Apollo and Soyuz (and Corona and Yantar ... ) you'll see blunt-cone and blunt-hemisphere structures. These are shapes that have a preferential orientation in gas flow - essentially unconditional stability. The craft in the video shows a rotational resonance that allows it to maintain the rotation - something that's completely unacceptable in this kind of vehicle. Once the parachute helps it regain some measure of stability, the rocking oscillation persists ... on two different occasions. That's indicative of near-resonance or conditional-stability. During the free-fall period, the rotational rate increases. That's bad ... very bad.

It doesn't matter that the vehicle got dumped out of the back of a C-17. The atmospheric conditions are an uncontrollable environmental variable, and need to be accounted for as such. Blaming "bad air" is no consolation when the mission fails.

Hi all! As a Croat I just had to post something to clarify... Croatia is a young country, and therefore we had to build our IT program infrastructure from close to nothing, meaning not many legacy problems. Being a small country (for a great holiday:) ), changes to this type of things is easier that applying the same to the US - imagine having to teach all the employees new tricks or worse new programs. Croatia has had a very long tradition of unix, and later linux usage. Our academic network http://www.carnet.hr/ is a long time promoter of OSS. All universities in Croatia run a Debian distro modified to suit every need of the students, teachers,... And new trends are constantly implemented. The same program is offered to secondary schools (and in a small extent to primary schools). Croatia has created an office for implementing new technologies called eHrvatska http://www.e-hrvatska.hr/ and they have been working on it for some 2-3 years now. At first there was no sign of actitity from them, but in the last year they brought to the public a series of interesting services nationwide (eVAT, eLearning, e), digitizing courts, land-ownership books,... Croatia was one of the first countries to include Digital signature into its legislation, opening the way for eBusiness and eGovernment. Even The head of Croatian Linux User Community is sceptical because Croatia has a deal with Microsoft for supplying MS software for all government needs, but it has become clear the money just leaves the country without any intent to come back. Making a WinXP and Office localization was a nice gesture, but nothing more. We have smart people, good programmers with great ideas making software for foreign countries. Why not earn some money at home by making software for home... I personally don't care if the move is made because of money issues, creating a software demand will mean jobs for programmers, and better service for citizens.

Apparently, someone tried to do that already. CARNET (Croatian academic and research network) provides cheap access to the internet for modem users. As a result of actions of that user entire modem-users subrange of CARNET was banned from google. Yes, they could'n access www.google.com. The issue was resolved only after a few weeks.
See http://www.cmu.carnet.hr/ for more info about that case...

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New stuff include

• Gnome 2.10.1, which makes the desktop a lot faster than before
• X.org
• Simplified update- and package management
• Much faster boot process
• Better laptop support (ie suspending, hibernating, processor frequency scaling)
• Kickstart support for automated largescale installations
• Live CD and Install CD both use the new debian installer infrastructure
• UTF-8 by default
• A program for collecting information about what hardware works and what doesn't
• Kubuntu - complete KDE 3.4 based version of Ubuntu

Stuff people are going to bitch about

• No graphical installer. The current installer is extremely simple and has been streamlined even further in this release. A graphical installer is planned for the next version (Breezy Badger).
• No menu editor installed. One can always edit the files by hand, or install kmenu or something similar for gnome. The official gnome menu editor just didn't finish in time.
• No DivX or MP3 support. These are simple to add though and anyone coming from debian will probably already know of the Marillat repositories. Just look at the instructions in the wiki or use Hoary After-Install helper or another script to do the dirty work for you.

OSDir has published a lot of screenshots of Ubuntu.

Oh and if you are interested to know if your laptop or other piece of hardware is supported, some info can be found in the wiki on the Hardware support-page

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I've given up on it years and years ago, but I do see it archived in at least one place file dated 13-Dec-2000 (that version is at least 4 years older, but evidently when it was placed there).

Wouldn't this qualify as prior art? IRC private messages are definitely the first form of "Instant Messaging" widely available on the Internet.

If anyone is serious about pursuing this, I hereby release the code to the public domain as an act to shit on the heads of the IP Bastards.

You can grab it from http://mod.carnet.hr/hr/carnet/rdlab/conf/apple/mw ny1999.mov. Beware, the quality is really low, but it's a great show. The first few minutes are especially cool.

All accounts of Myth 2 say they shipped together, but the Mac version was available first because a Virus was found in the PC Gold Master and the PC version recalled. In most Cases stores pulled all versions from the shelf Mac and PC. After that you would find it as a Hybrid Box sporting an orange sticker claiming to be Version 1.1 (and for all intents and purposes the same game, just Virus Free)

Do you have any cites for this? I recall both Myths being hybrid discs, but I could be wrong.

When Bungie announced they were selling to MS, both Oni and Halo were in production. In fact, so was Myth 3.

It turns out you're right about Oni. Do you have any cites about Myth 3? As far as I remember, it got started as a "milk the franchise for every last penny" project by the company that bought the series.

Halo was supposed to be released on Mac and PC from the start, but it was going to be on the Mac FIRST. I was at the MacWorld Keynote speech where Halo was first introduced (the same one we first saw the clamshell iBook). I believe it was Jason Jones on stage with Steve Jobs who narrated the trailer they were playing before the crowd as he explained what we were watching was played on a G4 with a ( then unavailable for the Mac) nVidia video card running hacked drivers.

He emphasized that the game would be for the Mac First with later release for the PC. The audience had been in quiet awe during the presentation when this caused the crowd to erupt into cheers.

I just downloaded and watched the keynote video. There's no mention that Halo will be Mac first, just that it will be on the Mac. After the realtime demo, Jason Jones just says that Halo is a work in progress and will be out in the first half of the next year.

If you're interested, the (very low-quality) keynote video can be had here. If I missed something there, please do tell. (It's worth downloading just for the first few minutes with Steve Jobs and Noah Wiley.)

And please, mods - If You Don't know if someone is right, don't mod them up Just because it sounds right !!

Good luck with that. 99% of slashdot moderators couldn't find their ass with two hands and a mirror. (Yes, I mean you, Mr. Mod.)

Why do we need Red Hat Network when we have all software we need thru Debian GNU CDs, mirrors network, dpkg package manager with full dependency management, apt to get all this software and install it, everything documented and supported?

What's more, Debian creates communities.